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LIFE'S 

COMMON 

WAY 



MARGARET 
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COMPILED BY 
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FOREWORD 

The compiler issues this little vol- 
ume in the hope that it may help 
along "Life's Common Way" some 
wayfarers who are tired with the heat 
and burden of the day. The aim of 
the thoughts presented is to act in 
some degree, however slight, as a 
medium for impersonal truth; let it 
but stimulate our faith and prove a 
tonic to our indifference, herein lies 
its use, should it attain the dignity 
of usefulness, that it shall arouse 
some deeper note, some higher octave 
than is perchance commonly sounded ; 
so may it awake the echoes and set 





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us vibrating, so attune our Eolian 
harp that there too shall the winds 
of heaven call forth some faint di- 
vine melodies. 




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The commonest life may be full of 
perfection. 

Every lot is happy to a person who 
bears it with tranquility. 

In our own sphere, it is not the most 
active people to whom we owe the 
most. 

To be silent, to pray when we cannot 
act, is acceptable to God. 

Accustom yourself to much calmness 
and an indifference to events. 





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Opportunities of doing a kindness 
are often lost from mere want of 
thought. 

Little obediences lead into great. 

You can live a beautiful life in the 
midst of your present circumstances. 

Happiness is not a matter of events, 
it depends upon the tides of mind. 

Love is the only service that power 
cannot command and money cannot 
buy. 

The first thing you should procure, 
after faith, is a good friend. 





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A man's true wealth hereafter is the 
good he has done in the world to his 
fellow-men. 

The wise man's tongue is in his heart, 
and the foolish man's heart is in his 
mouth. 

Occasions, like clouds, pass away. 

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the 
one is transitory ; the other perpetual. 

Real graciousness is a virtue exer- 
cised, not a virtue assumed. 

Manners act on morals, and hy their 
quality manners aid or destroy them. 




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Unless we keep our standard of man- 
ners high, we forget our responsibil- 
ity to others. 

Attractive people are kind, consider- 
ate, courteous, simple, straightfor- 
ward, generous-minded. These are 
among the great marks of character. 

The loss of time is the most hopeless 
and absolute loss we can sustain. 

The vice of envy is not only a danger- 
ous but a mean vice, for it is always 
a confession of inferiority. 

Death and Love are two wings which 
bear men from earth to Heaven. 




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The consciousness of duty performed 
gives us music at midnight. 

Live greatly, so that you may enjoy 
unknown capacities of joy. 

Gather roses while they blossom; to- 
morrow is not today! 

Procrastination of a good deed has 
often brought repentance. 

Hard frost, like hard times, brings 
noble works into prominence. 

Envy is like the rust of iron: it wears 
away the envious. 





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The cross is no longer a cross when 
there is no self to suffer under it. 

Silence is a great peacemaker. 

To persist in doing good is to become 
ennobled. 

To believe and go forward is the key 
to success and happiness. 

How many a solitary place would be 
made glad if love were there. 

How many a knot of mystery and 
misunderstanding would be untied by 
one word spoken in simple confiding 
truth of heart. 





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Aim as high as possible. Demand 
everything of yourself and resolve to 
deliver the greatest measure possible 
every day. 



The good Samaritan saves his sermon 
until after the work of succor. 



A little everyday help is worth a lot 
of Sunday holiness. 

Though humanity transgress as one 
man, Divine Law remains immuta- 
ble. 



Think all you speak, but speak not 
all you think. 





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Bread cast upon the waters returns 
the sweeter; and to return love for 
hate is to pay the highest deference 
to the soul. 

To love truth because of the truth is 
the essence of refinement; and to be 
true to one's self is to be moral. 

Every man is worth just as much as 
the things are worth about which he 
busies himself. 

Real necessity requires only the work 
of men and not the toil of slaves. 

Better internal forces than external 
incumbrances. 




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A sound body implies a mind free 
from fear and anger, from negation 
and weakness. 

Self-unfoldment is the path to wis- 
dom and the destined way of human 
life. 

Values are not always apparent, and 
a hasty judgment would often over- 
look that which is best. 

Never tell all you know, for he who 
tells everything he knows often tells 
more than he knows. 

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes 
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Over the inner world we have con- 
trol ; but open the door to one annoy- 
ance and a score rush in. 

Sense perversion leads to mental dis- 
integration. 

To be loved we must love; to be 
blessed we must bless. 

Character enjoins independence of 
thought and action; it is never de- 
ceived by numbers — is never a time- 
server. 

Close the ears and eyes to what is not 
good to hear and see; we shall choose 
food for the mind no less than for the 
stomach. 





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Peace does not dwell in outward 
things, but within the soul. 

Composure is often the highest result 
of power. 

Accustom yourself gradually to carry 
prayer into all your daily occupation. 

He is the best who wins the most 
splendid victories by retrieval of mis- 
takes. 

Whatever your hands find to do, do 
it with all your might, and all your 
worth and constancy. 

Dread above all things bitterness and 
irritation. Arrange things in order 
of their importance, and act accord- 
ingly. 





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Genius is only entitled to respect 
when it promotes the peace and im- 
proves the happiness of mankind. 

He who possesses worth and intelli- 
gence, who is just, speaks the truth, 
and does what is his own business, him 
the world will hold dear. 

We become optimists or pessimists 
according to the harmony or inhar- 
mony of our own minds. 

To have grown wise and kind is the 
real success. 

The duties of home are a discipline 
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It is rare when injustice or slights 
patiently borne, do not leave the heart 
at the close of the day filled with mar- 
vellous joy and peace. 

Two payments are made for all hon- 
est work ; the first is in money and is 
counted, the second is in patience, in 
dexterity, in tact, experience and 
courage, and is not counted. 

f A merry heart will ever remain the 
best medicine and sweet thoughts are 
angels, and gentle smiles a benedic- 
tion. 

To live divinely is not to ignore the 
commonplace, but to ennoble it. 





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Love is the key to the universe, 
which unlocks all doors. 



The spirit in which we act is the high- 
est matter. 

Patience is the noblest form of cour- 
age. 

Knowledge is a steep, which few may 
climb ; while duty is a path which all 
may tread. 

To live for others is the inevitable 
condition of our being. To accept 
the situation gladly is to find it 
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One act of charity will teach us more 
of the love of God than a thousand 



sermons. 



Manners are of more importance than 
laws ; upon them, in a great measure., 
law depends. 



No distance of place or lapse of time 
can lessen the friendship of those who 
are thoroughly persuaded of each 
other's worth. 



To get up immediately when we 
stumble, face again to the light and 
travel on without wasting a moment 
in regret. 





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It is your duty oftentimes to do what 
you would not, your duty, too, to 
leave undone what you would do. 

We must learn to live in a beauty, an 
earnestness, that shall have become 
part of ourselves. 



Charity is a virtue of the heart, not 
of the hands. 



Never at any single moment are you 
given anything but what you have put 
forth. 



Thought is the power that builds up 
character. 





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To every man there come noble 
thoughts that pass across his heart, 
like great white birds. 



There is no silence more docile than 
the silence of love, and it is indeed 
the only one that we may claim for 
ourselves alone. 



Between dreaming of tomorrow and 
regretting yesterday, there is no time 
for doing anything new. 



We have to live but one day at a 
time, but we are living for eternity 
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To think with sympathy of others is 
to grow ; you take in their experience 
and add it to your own development. 
Life is an education for eternal 
friendships. 

Life, if properly understood, would 
enable us "to acquiesce in the present 
without repining, to remember the 
past with thankfulness, and to meet 
the future hopefully and cheerfully, 
without fear or suspicion." 

It is a beautiful idea that every man 
has with him a Guardian Angel ; and 
it is true, too, for Conscience is ever 
on the watch, ever ready to warn us 
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Foresight is very wise, but foresor- 
row is very foolish ; and castles are at 
any rate better than dungeons in the 
air. 

What the superior man seeks in him- 
self, that the small man seeks in oth- 
ers. 

Friendship is at bottom a spiritual 
alliance. 

Solitude is a strain upon the soul. 
And yet the noblest souls have re- 
quired much solitude. 

Death is as natural as birth and 
doubtless as much a necessity for the 
human soul. 




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The love of God blooms in the lilac ; 
murmurs in the brook; shines in the 
dawn ; sings in the bird. The love of 
God is the truest key of knowledge. 

Great battles are really won before 
they are actually fought. 

To control our passions, we must 
govern our habits, and keep watch 
over ourselves in the small details of 
everyday life. 

We ought not to picture Duty to our- 
selves, or to others, as a stern task- 
mistress. She is rather a kind and 
sympathetic mother, ever ready to 
shelter us from the cares and anxie- 
ties of this world, and to guide us in 
the paths of peace. 





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To be good company for ourselves, 
we must store our minds well; fill 
them with happy and pure thoughts, 
with pleasant memories of the past, 
and reasonable hopes for the future. 
Time spent in innocent and rational 
enjoyments, in social and family in- 
tercourse, in healthy games, is well 
and wisely spent. 

Every moment you now lose, is so 
much character and advantage lost; 
every moment you employ usefully, 
is so much time wisely laid out, at pro- 
digious interest. 

Joy hovers about the head of the man 
who loves his own occupation. 





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Happiness is a by-product of self- 
forgetful service. 

We are guests in God's world. Life 
is a treat, not a task. We ought to 
move through life not like glaciers, 
but like a band of music. 

Your destiny is shaped in the land of 
brooding. 

Cultivate the thankful spirit, it will 
be to thee a perpetual feast. There 
is, or ought to be, with us no such 
things as small mercies. A really 
thankful heart will extract motive for 
gratitude from everything, making 
the most even of scanty blessings. 





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It is the common and simple and uni- 
versal gifts that make men happy; it 
is health, the glance of sunshine in the 
morning ; it is the fresh air ; the kind- 
liness that meets us on the journey; 
it may be only a word, a smile, a look; 
it is these and not any rarity of bless- 
ing that are God's gentle art of mak- 
ing happy. 

In order to love mankind, expect but 
little from them ; in order to view their 
faults without bitterness is a justice 
which frail humanity has a right to 
demand from wisdom. 



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measures. The great gifts are not by 
analysis. Everything good is on the 
highway. 

No man can afford to spend upon 
himself more than is needful; none 
can afford luxuries where others lack 
necessities. He is the richer who is 
content with less, not he who having 
much needs more. But prudence lies 
not in spending little, but in spending 
wisely, and it is a poor economy that 
saves money and lets go generosity. 
Would that we knew more of the 
beauty of simplicity and of the value 
of a stern and frugal way of life, for 
high living ever discourages high 
thinking, and when most lavish to the 
body we are penurious to the soul. 




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Half the misery of human life might 
be extinguished by mutual offices of 
compassion, benevolence and hu- 
manity. 

Good temper is like a sunny day, it 
sheds its brightness upon everything. 
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of 
content ; the quiet mind is richer than 
a crown. 

He only is advancing in life whose 
heart is getting softer, whose blood 
warmer, whose pulse quicker, whose 
spirit is entering into living peace. 

When thou wishest to delight thyself, 
think of the virtues of those who live 
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A faithful friend is a strong defence, 
and he that hath found such an one 
hath found a treasure. 

One who has true inward greatness 
thinks little of, and cares less for, 
what we term fame. For truly 
"Fame means nothing to those who 
take an inward view of life, for they 
see that at best it is but the symbol of 
intrinsic worth." 

To love the fields and wild flowers, 
the stars, the far open sea, the soft, 
warm earth, and to live much with 
them alone; but to love struggling 
and weary men and women and every 
pulsing, living creature better. Mak- 
ing others happy is the best happi- 
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To do our duty as we see it, regard- 
less of the opinions of others — seem- 
ing gain or loss, temporary blame or 
praise. 

To know that work, occupation, 
something definite and useful to do, 
is one of the established conditions of 
happiness in life. 

To recognize the good lying at the 
heart of all people, of all things, wait- 
ing for expression all in its own good 
way and time. 

It may be true that a rolling stone 
gathers no moss, but who desires to 
become moss-covered, anyway? 





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If calamity, disgrace, or poverty- 
come to your friends, then is the time 
they need you. 

God never shuts one door but He 
opens another. 

The goal of evolution is self-con- 
quest. 

Seldom is the message of the eye or 
ear wholly trustworthy; and to obey 
it implicitly is to follow a "will-o'-the- 
wisp" over the quagmires of illusion. 





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"EXCELSIOR" 

Every man is set upon an ascending 
line of human life. You never find 
God calling a man downwards, di- 
minishing the volume of his manhood, 
checking his good aspirations, put- 
ting him down in the scale of his be- 
ing. All the divine movement is an 
upward movement. 

An honest man's the noblest work of 
God. 

Making life as honest as possible, and 
calmly doing our duty in the present 
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not too curiously considering the fu- 
ture beyond us; standing ever erect, 
believing that God is just, we may 
make our passage through this life no 
dishonor to the power that placeth us 
there. 

Joy is happiness of love ; it is love ex- 
ulting; it is love aware of its own fe- 
licity, and resting in riches which it 
has no fear of exhausting; it is love 
taking a view of its treasure and sur- 
rendering itself to bliss without fore- 
boding. 





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"HARMONY" 

People who are in perfect harmony 
may be highly entertained by each 
other's company, even though few 
words be spoken. And it is such com- 
panionship, or friendship, that awak- 
ens the best in human nature, that is 
cherished with the most tender mem- 
ories for the longest time. Love is a 
passion of the soul, it does not arise 
in the body, and tends to express it- 
self in the body only because one of 
its many desires is creative desire. 

The fact that the soul needs the body 
through which to express itself should 
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nomena of love is purely physical, nor 
even for the larger part physical. In 
every case the body is but the instru- 
ment, the cause of it all is in the soul, 
and wholly of the soul. It is the soul 
that is in love, the body only responds 
when called upon to do so. And the 
more deeply we live in the tender ele- 
ments of the soul, the larger, the 
stronger and the more beautiful will 
our love become. 

To be recognized as a cheerful com- 
panion is the highest compliment that 
can be paid us. A cheerful compan- 
ion on a long journey — how short it 
seems ! The dull evening is banished 
by the presence of a happy man, and 
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is it borne when a cheerful optimism 
and fortitude take the place of sullen 
and gloomy thoughts! Truly the 
blessing of cheerfulness is not to be 
under-valued. 

In the heart's great struggle what 
we want is sympathy, not companion- 
ship. He must be alone, yet not so 
alone as to lose the sense of love at 
hand. 

Love is the radiant point for all vir- 
tues, and to live in accordance with it 
is to obey all moral laws. But to be 
benevolent for fear of criticism, to be 
virtuous for fear of consequences, 
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spectable for fear of society, is not 
morality but cowardice. 

Love is cosmic, not personal; it is 
metaphysical, not emotional. It is 
the substance as well as the aroma of 
life. It is for the home and the club, 
the street and the counting house. It 
is the only practical basis for all 
phases of social life. It is not a senti- 
ment of youth, but is for all men and 
women, all nations and created 
things. Love is the best business pol- 
icy and the best national policy. It 
is the only diplomacy that does not 
fail. 

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hold them up to their divine preroga- 
tives is the essence of true nobleness. 
To be fearless is to be godlike. It re- 
quires an ordinary and savage cour- 
age to face a cannon, but it takes a re- 
fined and gracious courage to face 
our impressions and dispel them. 

Our delusions, these are our enemies; 
our idle thoughts, these our insidious 
foes. We go into battle with colors 
flying and drums beating; we meet 
our delusions in silence, hearing no 
plaudits, spurred by no music. To 
come forth superior to all delusions, 
that the fear of death, of disease and 
poverty shall be swallowed in the vic- 
tory of love, — this is indeed to be a 
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work, or idleness, ridicule or praise, 
opinion or indifference, society or 
solitude, is to be a slave to one or all 
of these. 

Believe in yourself and you will turn 
more of yourself to practical use. 

The increase of self-confidence there- 
fore will increase your capacity and 
make you a much larger man. 

Stately is Service accepted, but love- 
lier is Service rendered. 

Usually the greatest boosters are the 
smallest workers. The deep rivers 
pay a larger tribute to the sea than 
the shallow brooks, and yet empty 
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Real worth requires no interpreter, 
its every-day deeds form its blazonry. 

The habit of viewing things cheerful- 
ly and of thinking about life hope- 
fully may be made to grow up in us 
like any other habit. 

From the idealistic point of view all 
things are good, but some are better, 
and a few are extraordinary. 

The secret of getting what is wanted 
is found in moving forward continu- 
ously, for all things desired lie on 
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"TRUE AIMS" 

Opportunities for public heroism are 
few, and even so are cheapened and 
made theatric by their very publicity. 

But it is left to every man to be he- 
roic, if he will, in his private life ; there 
is no bar to private heroism. And 
why should we have an audience for 
our acts — why make a spectacle of 
virtue? There is an inner sanction, a 
silent approval, which is heard be- 
yond all plaudits ; and this suffices to 
self-reliance. When the world is be- 
come our mentor we have no longer 
any Spartan virtue left. Men hesi- 
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forgetful that Spirit writes down 
every act, and strikes a balance on 
their faces. 

Poise implies self-reliance, and the 
true self-reliance is a reliance upon 
the Divinity within. 

Be not provoked by injuries to com- 
mit them. 

Whatever glory you lose in the eyes 
of men you will find again with God. 

They who have loved together have 
been drawn very close ; they who have 
struggled together are forever linked ; 
but they who have suffered together 
have known the most sacred bond of 
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Development is only possible through 
experience; and experience is an un- 
bending teacher ; she flogs her lessons 
home, but graduates of her school are 
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"CHARACTER" 

It requires character to read charac- 
ter. Superficially we are all things 
to all men despite ourselves. One 
considers us taciturn, another loqua- 
cious ; to some we have seemed clever 
and to others dull. Because of these 
ideals we have cherished, one calls us 
visionary, another wise and prophetic. 

Every man gages us by himself. A 
rogue believes all men are rascals; 
and moral weakness excuses mankind 
on the same ground. But a Parsifal 
sees no rascality in any one, for the 
pure see all things purely. In our 
own eyes we are every one a chro- 
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If you see anything that is worthy of 
praise, speak of it. Even if you can- 
not do a worthy deed yourself, com- 
mend one who does. Praise is a power 
for good; both God and man prize 
it. No prayer is complete without 
praise. The best worker, if his fel- 
lows fail to praise, fails doing as well 
as he can. 

Praise is sunshine, blame is the rain- 
storm that beats down and bedraggles 
even though at times necessary. 

Opportunities should never be lost 
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Humility and knowledge in poor 
clothes excel pride and ignorance in 
costly attire. 

In this is youth most wonderful: 
That it knows not fear. 



They that love beyond the world can- 
not be separated by it; death cannot 
kill what never dies. 
Death is but crossing the world, as 
friends do the seas; they live in one 
another still. 

For they must needs be present that 
love and live in that which is Omnipo- 
tent. In this Divine glass they see 
face to face, and their converse is free 
as well as pure. 





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This is the comfort of friends : That 
though they may be said to die, yet 
their friendship and society are in the 
best sense ever present, because im- 
mortal. 

Between a man and his wife nothing 
ought to rule but love. Authority is 
for children and servants, yet not 
without sweetness. 

A good rule for everybody: Do not 
stay up late two nights in succession. 

I would rather be able to appreciate 
things I cannot have than to have 
things I am not able to appreciate. 

Nothing is difficult when you put 
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If you have not known poverty, 
heart-hunger and misunderstanding, 
God has overlooked you, and you are 
to be pitied. 

Patience and steadfastness, and 
withal happiness and much laughter, 
mingled with whatever tears there 
may be along the way, will make even 
the most humble life the highest that 
can be lived. 

Whatever is mine I shall have, and 
shall keep. Nothing that is truly 
mine can ever be taken from me. And 
what isn't mine, I don't want. 

A man proclaims his religion in his 
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God in the nobleness of his life, and 
shows his reverence in the love of men 
and of animals; reveals it in tol- 
erance, kindness, gentleness and 
strength. Our love of mankind is 
the measure of our love of God; our 
faith in the eternal goodness, eternal 
progress, is the test of our religion. 

He that does good to another, does 
also good to himself; not only in the 
consequence, but in the very act of 
doing it; for the conscience of well- 
doing is an ample reward. 

Not they who have studied much, but 
they who have suffered much, are the 
deliverers of mankind. 





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There are those who have learned 
sympathy through harshest suffer- 
ing; there are those in whose souls 
God instilled it ere they were born. 

Forgive weakness as far as possible; 
and make it your religion to praise 
and encourage strength at every op- 
portunity. 

The increase of health, strength and 
vigor in the body invariably follows 
the increase of peace, harmony and 
joy in the mind. 

Never despair — life is long, oppor- 
tunities are many, and to all who 
work in faith there will surely come a 
glorious morn. 






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Delays have been more injurious 
than direct injustice. They too often 
starve those they dare not deny. 

Mix kindness with authority; and 
rule more by discretion than rigor. 

Wear none of thine own chains, but 
keep free whilst thou art free. 

Good words will do more than harsh 
speeches. The sunshine without any 
noise made the traveller cast off his 
coat, which all the blustering of the 
wind could not do, but made him bind 
it the tighter. 

Change of labor is to a great extent 
the healthiest form of recreation. 








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A friend may well be reckoned a mas- 
terpiece of nature. 

Expression is action; beauty is re- 
pose. 

Sabbath days, when rightly observed, 
are to Time what the mountains are 
to the earth — eminences from which 
we may survey glorious prospects, 
while the earth is beneath our feet. 

Good thoughts are the noblest com- 
panions. 

Crosses borne with patience are like 
storms at sea which seem to swamp 
the ship they are really bearing to- 
wards the shore. Life without a cross 
is the heaviest cross of all. 




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Great blessings that are won with 
prayer are worn by thankfulness. 

Prayer and thanks are like the dou- 
ble motion of the lungs. The air that 
is inhaled in prayer is breathed forth 
again by thanks. 

Criticism is seldom worth consider- 
ing. Those who know more than you 
do know better than to criticize; they 
would rather encourage; and the criti- 
cism of those who know less than you 
do is not worth while. 

See to it that your trials, disappoint- 
ments and the things which for the 
time overthrow you compel you to be 
a better man — a stronger soul. Some 
people never climb the heights, un- 





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less forced to the top by fire or blood. 
Find the high places; mountains are 
better than meadows. 

I know no real worth but that tran- 
quil firmness, which seeks dangers by- 
duty, and braves them without rash- 
ness. 

Human law can make no provision as 
to what we shall think of people; but 
divine law is very searching. 

Touch life with the wand of cheer- 
fulness and the dull and common- 
place become instinct with vitality 
and interest. There is no limit to the 
power of cheerfulness in reconstruct- 
ing and smoothing the path of every- 
day life. 





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It is in the nature of love that we 
shall have only in proportion as we 
give. 

The daisy is as perfect as the flower 
that blossoms only once a decade. 
The small life need not be less beau- 
tiful than the great. 

The history of every Christian reform 
is the history of toil and watching 
through long discouragements. God 
tests his people before He blesses 
them. Trust through the dark 
brings triumph in the dawn. 

If you wish for success in life, make 
perseverance your bosom friend, ex- 
perience your wise counsellor, caution 





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your elder brother, and hope your 
guardian genius. 

A more glorious victory cannot be 
gained over another man than this, 
that when the injury began on his 
part, the kindness should begin on 
ours. 

The rewards of life depend upon dili- 
gence. 

Because we love wife or child let us 
not hold them so close that they are 
stifled. A complete love is without 
fear, and the perfect love for the 
creature implies a corresponding love 
for the Creator. Whenever we show 
f earf ulness we betray a lack of trust ; 
and to that extent is our love imper- 




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feet — to that degree is it less than 
love. We may never reckon with- 
out God, try as we will. 

If you would read character, be kind, 
for love is the stone which reveals the 
gold in human nature. 

Give according to your means, or 
God will make your means according 
to your giving. 

He who takes his tonic from the air 
of mountains and of the sea where it 
is always on draught laughs at pills 
and lotions. 

The drug shop is Nature's standing 
joke. Health is neither bought nor 
sold but is free to healthy minds, as 
free as air and water and sunshine; 




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and it is the mortar of the mind with 
the pestle of thought that we shall 
compound the elixir of trust, of kind- 
ness and cheerfulness. 

To be happy is no less a duty to be 
performed than an ideal to be ob- 
tained. 

If our philosophy makes us pessi- 
mists, if our religion produces melan- 
choly, we had better have done with 
them both, for true religion and real 
philosophy produces no such bitter 
fruit. The virtue lies not so much in 
enduring, but in enduring cheerfully; 
not so much in work done or obstacles 
overcome; but rather in having done 
this while retaining still the blessings 
of cheerfulness and equanimity. 





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Do not neglect anyone at any time. 
You do not know who may have the 
power to serve you in the future. So, 
therefore, be at peace with all and 
prove your real worth. 

The man who can continue to be 
brimful of courage and enthusiasm, 
even when everything is against him, 
is the man who is going to win, and 
win splendidly. 

All the world loves the great-hearted 
man whose love is as deep as human- 
ity and as broad as creation. He is 
at the earnest call of mankind; 
Wherever men and women work; 
wherever men and women wait; 
wherever lives seem poor and barren; 
where they are joyless and unevent- 





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ful; where the crises seem too 
great; — there he heeds them and 
obeys. He goes to whisper courage, 
goes to give his strong right hand, 
goes to take a light into the darkness. 

Prayers are not spoken, they are 
lived. Our lives are our prayers and 
they are answered each after its own 
kind, be the seeking for worldliness 
or for wisdom. 

It is love in the heart and correspond- 
ing thoughts in the mind that shall 
bring peace on earth. 

We are as noble today as our ideals, 
and tomorrow it may be we shall 
transcend these. We are as great as 
our idea of God, — and just as little. 





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In the life of self-will the day comes 
when one by one every expedient 
shall have failed. Then we turn our 
thoughts within. "When matter is 
exhausted, spirit enters.' ' 
When we shall give free course to the 
love, the power, the wisdom which are 
around and within us, we shall be ir- 
resistibly impelled to all good ends. 
To cultivate the mind without the 
heart is to turn an arid soil that shall 
produce only sage-brush. A truly 
cultivated mind has learned first the 
virtue of the heart, for love is the ba- 
sis of a true culture. 

Be not diverted from your duty by 
any idle reflections the silly world 
may make upon you; for their cen- 





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sures are not in your powers, and 
consequently should not be any part 
of your concern. 

Kindness of heart occupies a larger 
space than the wide field of justice. 
Mortal wounds give the least pain. 

Recreate with the fellows who give 
you laughter. A gloomy matey is 
worse than a gray November day. 

Respect for human life, and tender- 
ness towards every form of human 
suffering, is one of the most marked 
features of the best modern culture. 
It is not wealth or ancestry, but hon- 
orable conduct and a noble disposi- 
tion, that makes men great. 





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A simple system of etiquette: Be 
kind to everybody and give all the 
pleasure you can to those you love. 

We take God's gifts most complete- 
ly for ourselves when we realize that 
He sends them to us for the benefit of 
other men who stand beyond us need- 
ing them. 

Man's greatest friend is his knowl- 
edge ; his greatest enemy is his ignor- 
ance. 

To doubt the goodness of God is to 
belie mother and father. 

Appreciation on good accomplished 
helps more than much advice on the 
good yet to come. 





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Oh! the comfort, the inexpressible 
comfort, of feeling safe with a per- 
son — having neither to weigh thought 
nor measure words — but to pour 
them all out, just as they are, chaff 
and grain together; certain that a 
faithful hand will take and sift them, 
keep what is worth keeping, and with 
the breath of kindness blow the rest 
away. 

The supreme test — Renunciation. 

When you do not feel as good as you 
like rejoice in the fact that you have 
the power to feel better if you like. 

Ours is not wisdom until it has be- 
come serene and tolerant. Never 





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was there a serene moment but it bore 
the fruit of serenity ; never a moment 
of courage but was productive of 
courage. 

The presence of poverty softens the 
heart, the presence of death renders 
it humble. 

The most difficult of arts is that of 
companionship to a loved one who is 
ill. Devotion alone is not enough. 
You must possess the tact of self-con- 
trol to show thoughtfulness without 
solicitude, attention without anxiety, 
you must exhibit sympathy, but hide 
all worry. Only one man in a hun- 
dred can fill the trying position, and 
only one woman in ten. 





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The most unfortunate being is he 
who has no one depending upon him 
for support. However poor such a 
man may be, he is wise if he takes a 
cat, a dog, or a blind beggar to care 
for. In order that he may get out of 
himself. 



We must neither drift nor permit 
anyone else to drift if we can possibly 
help it. But to prevent others from 
drifting we must continue to preach 
greater achievements, to everybody, 
thus intensifying, at least to some de- 
gree, that current in human life that 
is ever tending towards better things. 
Return the civilities thou receivest, 
and be ever grateful for favors. 





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Never esteem any man or thyself the 
more for money, nor think the mean- 
er of thyself or another for want of 
it. Virtue being the just reason of 
respecting, and the want of it of 
slighting, any one. 

To live up to the mark is to live up 
to your expectations of yourself. 

Men of the noblest dispositions think 
themselves happiest when others 
share their happiness with them. 

Love of reading enables a man to 
exchange the weary hours which come 
to every one for hours of delight. 

Patience is not passive. On the con- 
trary, it is active, it is concentrated 
strength. 




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A good deed is never lost; he who 
sows courtesy reaps friendship, and 
he who plants kindness gathers love; 
pleasure bestowed upon a grateful 
mind was never sterile, but gener- 
ally gratitude begets reward. 

If there is a virtue in the world at 
which we should always aim, it is 
cheerfulness. 



A cheerful temper joined with inno- 
cence will make beauty attractive, 
knowledge delightful, and wit good- 
natured. It will lighten sickness, 
poverty, and affliction; convert ignor- 
ance into an amiable simplicity; and 
render deformity itself agreeable. 





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He is not so much to be pitied who 
has misfortunes as he that is unable to 
turn them to account, or bear them 
with patience. 

To a child nothing is dead or inani- 
mate. All things speak a language 
that its ears are tuned to understand. 
Whoever studies just one child, stud- 
ies all human kind. 

Not the most radiant of Yesterday's 
jewels is worth the gift Today be- 
stows unasked — life. yet to live. 

Who shall despair while the fields of 
earth are sown with flowers and the 
fields of heaven blossom with stars. 
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good homes, there is no house like 
God's Out-of-doors. 

Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet gar- 
den grow wreaths for each toil, a 
charm for every woe. 

Repentance is God's fire for refining 
Souls. 

What a home of follies the heart 
would be did not one drive out an- 
other. 

How few the friendships that endure 
when to be faithful is to incur re- 
proach and shame. 

Years dim the eyes of those that love, 
that age may see no wrinkles in the 
dear familiar face. 




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Influence in the world is a capital 
which it is necessary to regard that it 
should not vanish. 

Theory is what a man thinks of a 
certain subject, and practice is what 
he does. 

How wise we would be, could we but 
recall upon occasion the thoughts we 
have forgotten. 

Dislike what deserves it — but never 
hate. For that is of the nature of 
malice; which is almost ever to per- 
sons, not things, and is one of the 
blackest qualities sin begets in the 
soul. 




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Show is not substance; realities gov- 
ern wise men. 

A man's life is half over, before he 
learns how to live. 

Belief is love for the invisible, con- 
fidence in the improbable. 

Believe nothing against another but 
upon good authority; nor report 
what may hurt another, unless it be 
a greater hurt to others to conceal it. 
Silence is a great peace-maker. 

He that lives in love, lives in God. 
He that lives to live ever never fears 
dying. The truest end of life is to 
know the life that never ends. 





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Give if thou canst, in alms ; if not, af- 
ford instead of that a sweet and gen- 
tle word. 

Kindness in woman, not their beau- 
teous looks, shall win love. 

All the world is the temple of God. 
Its worship is ministration. The 
commonest service is divine. 

Let every minister while he is preach- 
ing remember that God makes one 
of his hearers. 

He who loves not others lives unblest. 

Let us not mow, and shear, and prune 
until the landscape has become a 
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character finds nowhere a dear, rug- 
ged spot on which to rest. Let a man 
preserve his love of the wild; let him 
cherish the savage and solitary as- 
pects — tamarack swamp, and rush- 
ing stream, the granite dome rising 
above forest of spruce. 
Society will never restore the lost vir- 
tues of the savage. When we can 
stand and watch the black bear dis- 
consolate in his pitiless cage, or the 
eagle fierce and defiant in his solitary 
confinement, and feel no regret, a vir- 
tue has surely gone from us. 
Let us seek the stern companionship 
of the stars which fails not, and grap- 
ple with hooks of steel the solemn 
friendship of mountain range and en- 
circling ocean. There is poetry in the 





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sky, rich, varied and endless, the im- 
measurable soul projected before us 
and made visible. There is sweet sol- 
ace in the clouds and jovial good-fel- 
lowship in the tried and trusty sun. 









"ADMIRATION" 

It is a good thing to admire. By con- 
tinually looking upwards our minds 
will themselves grow upwards. And 
as a man, by indulging in habits of 
scorn and contempt for others, is sure 
to descend to the level of what he 
despises, so the opposite habit of ad- 
miration and enthusiastic reverence 
for excellence impart in ourselves a 
portion of the qualities we admire. 

There are some men and women in 
whose company we are always at our 
best. All the best stops in our nature 
are drawn out by their intercourse, 







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and we find a music in our souls never 
there before. 

The honest, earnest man must stand 
and work; the woman also. 

If you are sincere and decent and do- 
ing the best you can, the majority 
will like you, which is consoling, in- 
deed, especially at those times when 
"The better-than-thou-class" seem to 
misunderstand nearly every move you 
make. 

The true idea of non-resistance is not 
to become submissive or indifferent, 
but to cease wasting time trying to 
drive out darkness, and use all time 
and energy instead trying to increase 




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the power and the brilliancy of the 
light. 

When we speak of thought we do not 
refer to ordinary thinking; we refer 
to that class of thought which chal- 
lenges the spirit and opens the door 
to the inmost soul. 

It is the heart which makes the home, 
whether the eye rests upon a potato 
patch or a flower garden. Heart 
makes home precious, and it is the 
only thing that can. 









"QUALITIES OF A FRIEND" 

A true friend unbosoms freely, ad- 
vises justly, assists readily, adven- 
tures boldly, takes all patiently, de- 
fends courageously, and remains a 
friend unchangeably. These being 
the qualities of a friend, we are to 
find them before we choose one. 



True joy is a serene and sober mo- 
tion, and they are miserably out that 
take laughing for rejoicing. The 
seat of it is within, and there is no 
cheerfulness like the resolution of a 
brave mind. 





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If you do not enjoy your life your 
living is wrong. 

There are four things that come not 
back: The spoken word; the sped 
arrow ; the past life ; and the neglect- 
ed opportunity. 

Always say a kind word if you can, 
if only that it may come in perhaps 
with singular opportuneness, enter- 
ing some mournful man's darkened 
room like a beautiful firefly, whose 
happy convolutions he cannot but 
watch, forgetting his many troubles. 

He is tenderest, not who has sinned, 
as is sometimes vainly thought — but 
he who has known best the power of 
sin by overcoming it. 





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Prosperity is a great teacher; but ad- 
versity is a greater. Possession pam- 
pers the mind; privation trains and 
strengthens it. 

The still small voice is not in the 
small mind. 

It's finer being a very small piece of 
sunshine than a very large bank of 
fog. 

The strength and sweetness of friend- 
ship depend on sincerity tempered 
by sympathy. 

The contemplation of celestial things 
will make a man speak and think 
more sublimely and magnificently 
when he descends to human affairs. 




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It is worth a thousand pounds a year 
to have the habit of looking on the 
bright side of things. 

The poor are God's receivers, and the 
Angels are his auditors. 

We need the thinker in business as 
well as the doer. To be a doer alone 
is to finally become a mere machine. 

But when thinking and doing are 
combined then we have material for 
the really big man. 

Let us help the fallen though they 
never repay us; and let us lend with- 
out exacting the usury of gratitude. 





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It is part of my religion to look well 
after the cheerfulness of life and let 
the dismals shift for themselves. 








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"RIDICULE" 

It is an immense blessing to be per- 
fectly callous to ridicule, or, which 
comes to the same thing, to be con- 
scious thoroughly that what we have 
in us of noble and delicate is not ri- 
diculous, to any but fools — and that 
if fools will laugh, wise men will do 
well to let them. 

The noblest vengeance is to forgive. 

Books are men's hearts — in other 
men's hands. 





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"CHARACTER" 

To possess character is to be useful, 
and to be useful is to be independent 
and happy, even in the midst of sor- 
row. 

For sorrow is not necessarily unhap- 
piness. The man who has made the 
development of a noble and harmoni- 
ous character the business of his life, 
accepts his sorrow as means of greater 
growth, and finds in them an exalta- 
tion of spirit which is closely allied to 
happiness. To such a nature abso- 
lute wretchedness would only be pos- 
sible through the loss of self-respect, 
the lowering of an ideal of a prin- 
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Would you be happy and success- 
ful? Then set yourself to build char- 
acter. Seek to be worthy of your 
own highest commendation. 



There is something vitally wrong 
with the blood of a man who reveals 
the same unhealed wound, year after 
year. For it is the impulse of a 
healthful nature to heal wounds. So 
is there something radically wrong in 
the makeup of the person who shows 
you the same cankering sorrow, year 
after year, for it is also the wish and 
purpose of progressive nature that 
we should outgrow our griefs. He 
who does not has a right to our pity 
but not our admiration. 





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No man is so rich he can afford to 
lose friends, nor so poor he needs to 
buy them. 

Whether ye be men or women, you 
will never do anything in the world 
without courage. It is the greatest 
quality — next to honor. 

Learn to endure — if you wish to suc- 
ceed. 

A life here, in which you fail of every 
end you seek, yet which disciplines 
you for a better, is assuredly not a 
failure. 

Everything has two handles — one by 
which it can be borne, and one by 
which it cannot. If your brother is 




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unjust to you, do not take it up by 
the handle of his injustice, but by the 
handle that he is your brother and 
brought up with you. 

Kindness is the music of good will to 
men, and on this harp the smallest 
fingers may play Heaven's sweetest 
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"GOODNESS" 

Consider this, your goodness is of no 
use if you are not good to others. 
The good of goodness is that you can 
wrap others inside it. It ought to 
be like a big cloak that you have on a 
cold night, while the shivering per- 
son next to you has none. If you 
don't make use of your goodness, 
what is the good of it? 

I hold myself indebted to any one 
from whose enlightened understand- 
ing another ray of knowledge com- 
municates to mine. Really to inform 
the mind is to correct and to en- 
lighten the heart. 





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It is not difficult to get away into re- 
tirement, and there live upon your 
own conviction; nor is it difficult to 
mix with men and follow their con- 
victions; but to enter into the world, 
and there live firmly and fearlessly 
according to your own conscience, 
that is Christian greatness. 

The cross spells fatherhood, and be- 
cause it spells fatherhood, it also 
spells brotherhood. It is God think- 
ing and feeling for all. It is God 
sending his son to be the brother to 
every one of us, and showing us how 
to be the brother to every other man. 
It is to help men not to live an apart 
life, but to live for one another. 




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